Hogendorn presents at Media Workshop in Portugal and in new York City

Chris Hogendorn presented “Unequal Growth in Local Wages: Rail versus Internet Infrastructure” (co-author David Schwartz ’17) in a seminar at the City College of New York on October 3. He also presented his paper “The Long Tail of Online News Visits” (co-authored with Lisa George and Hengyi Zhu ’15) at the Media Economics Workshop, Braga, … Read more

Izumi attends conference in Vienna and wins “Rookie of the Year” award

Ryuichiro Izumi attended the Vienna Macro Café Conference on October 10-12 organized by the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies, the Vienna Graduate School of Economics, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.  He presented his paper Opacity: Insurance and Fragility, and was chosen for the “Rookie of the year” award!  Here is a photo … Read more

Khamis gives talk in New Haven and Uppsala

Melanie Khamis gave a talk entitled “Migration and the Labor Market: New Evidence from Mexico,” at the Macmillan Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University on September 27.  She also gave a talk entitled “Personality, Gender, and the Labor Market” (joint work with  David Condon, Giovanni Hutchinson ‘19, Joyce Jacobsen, Laurence Levin, and … Read more

Grossman blog post published on CEPR website

Richard Grossman authored a blog post on the Vox CEPR website with Gareth Campbell and John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast) entitled, “New monthly indices of the British stock market, 1829-1929,” based on their CEPR and Wesleyan Working paper “Before the cult of equity: New monthly indices of the British share market, 1829-1929.” (https://ideas.repec.org/p/wes/weswpa/2019-003.html